4:26am - (yes, I remember the time exactly) Amy exclaims "OH WOW!" cause he water breaks. Kenn JUMPS out of bed running around like an idiot "what do I do, what do I do?"

4:27am - call doctor, we're meeting you at the hospital

4:45am - arrive at the hospital and Amy contracts in the hallway for few minutes while we wait for a wheelchair.

5:00am - Doctor comes and checks Amy, 6cm, to which Amy says, "That's it?"

6:00am - Amy yells at nurses, doctors and Kenn to STOP touching her while she is contracting!! GRRR!!.

6:20am - time to PUSH!

6:52am - Beckett Isaac North is born

6:53am - Beckett urinates all over EVERY nurse. Dad cried with pride :)

6:55am - people begin guessing his wieght, seriously he had rolls for crying out loud. Guess range from 10lbs 2 oz. to 10 lbs 7 oz.

7:00am - they weigh him, he is 10LBS 14OZ!! HOLY CRAP, that's large. Mom cries with Pride, and becomes every nurses HERO!!

7:10am - Momma holds Beckett for the first time. Mom and Dad BOTH cry with pride.
He's here, he's huge, get used to it.

Stats:
Weight: 10lbs 14oz
Length: 21.5 inches

Labels: beckett, family, pictures, pregnancy

Lucky it's Caleb, and not me. :) The kid has just been so sweaty lately, and I couldn't get his hair short enough using scissors, so tonight we caved and we took clippers to his head. I would've loved to use the #3, but our kit gave us two #4's and skipped the #3 entirely, so instead I used a #2. It is SHORT. And it makes his head look pretty round. But the more we look at it, the cuter we think he is. He definitely looks boyish. And his mouth looks EXACTLY like my niece Lydia's in that tiny grin picture. I've never seen a resemblance between them before, but I think it's pretty cool that it's there now. :) Oh, and Kenn says Caleb looks like Fester. Lovely.

Labels: caleb, pictures

So, our little man turned 2. We planned a cool little party for Caleb, trying to keep things simple but still fun for him, and it turned into a pretty fun day, although he got VERY emotional a few times. We had his birthday present all wrapped and ready the day before, and my parents had mailed him a few things also, so Saturday morning (the 28th) we let Caleb open up his birthday presents. We gave him a sprinkler/pool thing which was also the main activity for the party, and also a rag quilt that I had made a few months ago. Happily, he LOVED the blanket. That always makes a girl feel good. :)

And then the party itself went pretty well, although this was where the tears came. Before friends arrived, we set up the sprinkler thing outside, and Caleb saw it of course, and completely burst into tears when we didn't let him immediately go out and play in it. So he was crying for about 10 minutes before people even showed up. Then, once everyone was there, we did cake and ice cream, and when we sang "Happy Birthday" to him he freaked out. Literally. Lots more tears and screaming. I don't think I'm really doing the situation justice, but we got it on video, so you can all see for yourselves what went down.

Caleb loved eating his cake that mommy made in the shape of a puppy, and then all the kiddies went out and played in the water and had a great time. He even got to open more presents that his friends had brought him. It was nice that he didn't cry anymore. :) So, a big thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us, and thanks for the gifts that you gave Caleb. He had a great birthday, and we loved sharing it with you all. Enjoy the pics!

Labels: family, holiday, pictures

My little Bro Kow (Karl) came home over the weekend. We surprised him at the airport, he didn't know we were coming. He looks so old, but also so good. He was serving his Mission in the Richmond Virginia Mission and had a WONDERFUL time. I always knew he'd make a great missionary. His humility and general nice guy attitude have always impressed me.

Mom and Dad went to Virginia to pick him and bring him home and go to see some of the great people in Virginia that Karl had the privilege to be around. It's good to have him back. On the way home from the airport we attempted to plan a snowboarding trip, but too many are closed at the moment. Snowbird is open, but I don't like it there. Next February we are going, no matter what.

Here are a few pictures of the clan that saw him come back.




Welcome home Kow. We missed you.

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It's official--Kenn was right, and we're having another BOY! This picture proves it all. :) Everything else looked good, heart and spine and all that, and this little one is definitely a mover and a shaker just like Caleb was. He kept wiggling and kicking the whole time. But it was fun to see him, and Caleb even got to come along and see the "baby" on the screen. He understands now that there is a baby in mommy's tummy, and he's given the baby kisses and everything, so hopefully we can get that brotherly love going strong before this baby is actually born. At any rate, Kenn is thrilled, and I'm excited, although a little surprised that I was wrong. I was so sure it was a girl, but I can't know everything, I guess. I'm glad we won't have to buy all new bedding and clothes and everything, cause goodness knows we're equipped for a boy. So, off we go into the world of getting ready for another boy. My goodness, what are we getting into?

UPDATE from Kenn:
All of our friends and ourselves got caught up in the charts, calendars and other signs of telling if a baby is a boy or a girl. This goes to show all that stuff is just not reliable. It could be right, but with chances that are 50-50 the results are seriously skewed. I'm happy it's a boy, but I'm truly more happy that everything looked good on the ultrasound, and that Amy is healthy and happy. Caleb will have fun with his new little brother. The new Caleb 2.0! We'll get things right this time ;).

Labels: beckett, family, pictures

So, some more pics for your viewing pleasure. I'm 20-weeks along in the pic, and the ultrasound ones are rather self-explanatory. There's a few more in the photo album as well. Yay baby!

Labels: family, pictures

After 4 1/2 years the old white 1990 Subaru Legacy we had got to the point I didn't want to put money into it any more. It was GREAT car seeing as we paid $1250 for it when we got it and the only thing we really did it was CV joints and a new radiator. It had 225,000 miles and ran famously when we sold it, but the air didn't work and I wanted to sell it while it was still in good shape. I sold it right after we bought the Forester in 12 hours on craigslist! I love craigslist.

Here is our new car. Only 94,000 miles and in perfect shape. I've been tinkering with it and getting all the little pieces in the interior working where needed and had it detailed since the previous owner had a dog and it went for rides in the car. It's got it all as far as we're concerned. Keyless entry, leather seats, a yakima roof rack for Bikes, skis, and a luggage carrier, and it drives like a dream.
We also tinted the windows as dark as the country of Texas will allow.

We had quite an ordeal getting it registered. I even was threatened at the DMV to have the sheriff called on me. Very amusing, but when I lived in the U.S. things weren't nearly as difficult, but now that I live in Texas it's very different. This is a strange country, where everyone carries a gun, and the least occurrence of sarcasm, the sheriff is called.

Anyway, it's a great car and Amy loves driving it, it's a little taller and so it's easier to get Caleb in and out of and will be easier with the new baby as well.

Labels: cars, family, pictures

Did anyone catch that movie reference?? It's not supposed to be "flower," of course, it should be father, but then it wouldn't make sense with my post. :) I didn't plant daffodils! I am so silly! Once something bloomed, I was immediately reminded that I'd planted IRISES. Silly, Amy. But they do look gorgeous. So here are the pictures to show it. Hooray for flowers!

Labels: home, pictures

How can you not love it when you get a tulip growing in your front yard by the end of March? This picture is not a lame stock photo off Google, people--this is actually outside my front door! It's the first, and only, tulip that has bloomed, and although the daffodil leaves came up back in January and I thought it was a wasted effort on my part, they, too, are looking like they're preparing to bloom. The little bit of color next to the tulip is a snapdragon flower that was blown off in a thunderstorm, but the point is that I have snapdragon flowers again! I have about 3 or 4 plants that survived the whole winter and are blooming in gorgeous colors. I love it! Not that I'm a great gardener or anything, but it is nice to see those pretty flowers when we go out the door, and Caleb loves to look at them. He squats down as close as he can and calls everything "red." It makes us both smile, though. You can't beat that. :) I'm definitely enjoying our springtime.

Labels: home, pictures

Oh...my boy and his over-alls...I think they are the absolute cutest things that he wears, but they just seem to inspire silliness in everyone. Caleb has recently developed an interesting and slightly-questionable habit of sticking his hands into the sides of his over-alls whenever he wears them. He does enjoy the gentle reminder that his tummy is indeed still attached to the rest of his body, but other than that I'm not sure I see the point. It sure makes for a good picture, though. And then there's the cupboard. You all know from my previous post that he digs pulling the plastic bowls out of the cupboard, but this day he went one better. He pulled out the bowls, and then decided to sit in place of the bowls while he drank his soy-milk. How do you NOT take a picture of that? Even mid-dinner-prep, I let the ground turkey handle itself so I could capture this. Totally worth it, over-all.

Labels: family, pictures, random

It never ceases to amaze me the things that Caleb can find to play with that are not conventional toys. Take these pictures for instance--what did he find to play with here?? Mom's hooded sweater! It became a great game of throwing it over his head, and saying "Where's Caleb? Where did he go?" and Caleb simultaneously giggling and struggling to free himself. It was at least a good 10 minutes or so of entertainment, which all you moms out there know is a hot commodity. It's not just sweaters, though. Another one of his recent discoveries is the cabinet full of plastic bowls, all neatly nested together. The game with those is to pull them out of the cupboard, separate them all, and then kick/carry/push them to all corners of the house. GREAT fun for Mom. :) But what can I do? It entertains him, it's really not that big of a mess, and he has at least learned to pick them up again. What the heck, kid, play with anything you want. I give up. :)

Labels: caleb, pictures, random

Looking at this kid, you'd never know that he was cut into 3 days ago. It was a pretty quick recovery, all things considered. We kept him on Tylenol w/ Codeine on Monday after we came home, and then Tuesday he just got Motrin, and yesterday was nothing at all. He has been playing and running around, and aside from a few cranky moments, he has bounced right back. He still has the dressing on the surgical site, and that will stay on for about 6 more days, but then he should be good to go, and the steri-strips will fall off on their own in 2-3 weeks. I'm impressed with how Caleb handled the whole thing. He is quite the trooper. It's been nice to have my little man back to normal the last few days, though. If only these adorable pictures weren't so fuzzy...

Labels: caleb, pictures

You may recognize the photo on the left, it's the new face of Kennandamy.com.

We had some new family photos taken at JCPenney, be sure to check them out in the photos section. They turned out really nice. I can send you larger tif versions if you want to print some for yourself. Caleb does look a little orange (too much squash and carrots)

Head on over to the photos section and get a look at the whole bunch of family photos.

Labels: family, pictures